 | 1905 - 726 ページ
...Greek art immortalised. 'Nature ' is the first chief element by which we are enabled to con' ceive the spirit of the Greeks. The key to their mythology...here. Here is the secret of their sympathies, the well' spring of their deepest thoughts, the primitive potentiality ' of all things they have conceived... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1873 - 444 ページ
...pure breasts and forehead are unveiled. Nature is the first, chief element by which we are enabled to conceive the spirit of the Greeks. The key to their...primitive potentiality of all they have achieved in art. What is Apollo but the magic of the sun, whose soul is light? What is Aphrodite but the lovecharm of... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1877 - 466 ページ
...pure breasts and forehead are unveiled. Nature is thus the first,chief element by which we are enabled to conceive the spirit of the Greeks. The key to their...deepest thoughts, the primitive potentiality of all * See tfie introduction to my chapter on Athens in Sketches in Italy cind Greece for the characteristic... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1880 - 706 ページ
...delightful essays on the Greek songsters. ' Nature is the first, chief element by which wo are enabled to conceive the spirit of the Greeks. The key to their mythology is here. Here is the secret of (heir sympathies, the wellspring of their deepest thoughts, the primitive potentiality of all they... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 630 ページ
...breasts and forehead are unveiled. Nature is thus the first, chief element by which we are enabled to conceive the spirit of the Greeks. The key to their...primitive potentiality of all they have achieved in art. What is Apollo but the magic of the sun whose soul is light ? What is Aphrodite but the love charm... | |
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Aphrodite, whose raiment falls waist-downward to her sandals on the sea, but whose pure breasts and forehead are unveiled. Nature is the first, chief element by which we are enabled to conceive the spirit of the Greeks. The key to their mythology is here.... 